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osteobiography

osteobiography noun: the life story of a person as deduced from their skeletal remains.

Noun

osteobiography (countable and uncountable, plural osteobiographies)

  1. (countable) The life story of a person as deduced from their skeletal remains.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:osteobiography.
  2. (uncountable) The practice of deducing life stories from skeletal remains.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:osteobiography.

Forms of osteobiography

pluralosteobiographies

Origin of osteobiography

From osteo- + biography.

Questions about osteobiography

What does osteobiography mean?
Osteobiography means the life story of a person as deduced from their skeletal remains.
What part of speech is osteobiography?
Osteobiography is a noun.
What is the plural of osteobiography?
The plural of osteobiography is osteobiographies.

Words near osteobiography in the dictionary

  1. osteoarthrotic
  2. osteoarticular
  3. osteobiographic
  4. osteobiographical
  5. osteobiographies
  6. osteobiography
  7. osteoblast
  8. osteoblastic
  9. osteoblastogenesis
  10. osteoblastogenic
  11. osteoblastoma

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